Men such as Marx, Mill, and Voltaire had very dramatic impacts on how our society progressed and evolved. They essentially taught us and guided us in the right direction that would be best for society and although every one of them had a different way of doing it they all managed to make their way succeed. In this paper I will elaborate more on how each one of them acted in the right way and in accordance to what their beliefs were.

According to Marx there were 2 classes, the bourgeoisie, who were the noble, wealthy landowners, and then the proletariat, who were the poor working class. ?The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.? (Communist manifesto, p. 12) These classes were constantly in conflict with one another because the proletariats were constantly trying to make more money and get out of this economical dry spell.

Cover of the Communist Manifesto’s initial publi...

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Mill Street, Warwick

The bourgeoisie didn?t exactly have the urge to pay more money to these people since they new that in order to survive they would have to have some type income. So if they revolted they would either be killed for trying to or would die because their income would not be there, ergo, they would not have any money to buy food with and would suffer from starvation. ?What, therefore, the wage-laborer appropriates by means of his labor merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence.? (Communist Manifesto p.24) This is how the Iron Law of wages started because a worker has to get paid a minimum wage at the least in order to stay in existence or stay living. Companies started to realize that if they increased their wages more employees would come work for...

More Political Theory essays:

... or not same-sex marriages should be allowed and whether this act directly harms the fabric of society (the masses) or whether it should be regarded as a lawful right of a minority to seek happiness and equality in an institution open to ...

... the politics of the third way." According to Giddens old left was inclined to neglect the worries about civic decline, even the Communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union meant destruction for the local civil society. The development of the third sector, or of the ...

... the world for communism to be anything other than a dream. This was proved in the Soviet Union under the communist leadership of Lenin, and how Stalin proved the benevolence of the Leviathan State could easily become totalitarian. In conclusion, although Marx may have worked from the ...

... democracy left to its own accord cannot adapt to a crisis. Democracy's infirmity of action is oppositely contrasted with the swift decisive impulse of tyranny. Tyranny is a word with a negative connotation citing gross injustice and inefficient government. But ...